Please join us for a day of discussion on how digital humanities and feminist approaches both destabilize the archive and offer new opportunities to reshape the archive as a mode of translation and mediation.

RELS faculty member Timothy Powell will talk about his work recent work the Sioux Water Keepers in the standoff at Standing Rock, by relating stories told to him by the Native people and sharing his thoughts about how indigenous philosophies and storytelling methods can be instrumental in discussions of climate change.

The Penn Journal of Religious Studies, a graduate
and undergraduate journal, is currently looking for individuals who are
interested in serving as editors. We feel that members of the Religious
Studies Department may be interested in this opportunity. The deadline
to apply is September 20th.

The Department of Religious Studies will be hosting an undergraduate
society for the 2016-17 school year. The Penn Religious Studies Society
is a newly-established organization designed to connect majors and
minors of the undergraduate division and foster a community of members who
share special interest in the field.

Are depictions of Muhammad actually forbidden in Islamic scripture? From where does this aversion to pictorial representations arise? And are all Muslims similarly offended? Prof. Jamal J. Elias explains in The Conversation.